Luke 2:52

2:52 And Jesus increased ¹  in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with people.

Luke 6:15

6:15 Matthew, Thomas, ²  James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, ³ 

Luke 20:30

20:30 The second ⁴ 

¹ tn Or “kept increasing.” The imperfect tense suggests something of a progressive force to the verb.

² sn This is the “doubting Thomas” of John 20:24-29.

³ sn The designation Zealot means that Simon was a political nationalist before coming to follow Jesus. He may not have been technically a member of the particular Jewish nationalistic party known as “Zealots” (since according to some scholars this party had not been organized at that time), but simply someone who was zealous for Jewish independence from Rome, in which case the descriptive term applied to Simon means something like “Simon the patriot” (see L&N 25.77 and especially 11.88).

³ tc Most mss (A W Θ Ψ Ë^1,13 33 Ï lat) have the words, “took the wife and this one died childless” after “the second.” But this looks like a clarifying addition, assimilating the text to Mark 12:21. In light of the early and diverse witnesses that lack the expression (א B D L 0266 892 1241 co), the shorter reading should be considered authentic.